Zoner Photo Studio X

I've been using Zoner Photo Studio 17 Pro and have found that it has a lot of tools in common with Adobe Lightroom. I bought it for $20 and it's currently an older version, but it has many of the tools I need to edit photos, including RAW files. There is a learning curve because of all the features, but that makes it a powerful piece of software.

I'm done with the paying version. I will search for another program because I don't like to receive spam in my paid program. I wrote about my problem but got a standard answer, thanking me for understanding, which I don't.

What can I say, it's gotta be one of the best all in one photo editors out there. For my purposes it does everything I need, yes it could have a few more features but you can say that about any photo editor out there. I love how you can edit a photo and just export to Zonerama, a beautiful photo sharing site. A site that you can upload unlimited photo in full resolution for free and you can even edit the photo in Zonerama from Zoner Photo Studio and it will make the changes to your photo in Zonerama, how great is that. Zoner Photo Studio is also part of a great photo community. Zoner is always sending out great info to you via there magazine. I could go on and on, it's just a great photo editing program.

Reasonably priced and VERY capable. It's not quite Lightroom, which it resembles, but it's close. I purchased it a few months ago and I'm quite happy with it.

I'm re-writing this comment from scratch. After giving ZPS some time, I find it's a reasonable replacement for Lightroom Classic given the generous ability to have ZPS installed on an unlimited number of computers (all with your individual, licensed login). As the cost of ZPS is about $60/year compared to LRC's $120/year/computer, the value is undeniable. The feature set is not quite up to LRC's level but it's very close and, as the $savings may be spent of other excellent tools (ie, Photomizer, Luminar Neo, others) to augment ZPS's capabilities, I'm preparing to drop my Adobe subscription.

I'll add that ZPS's tech support has been quite responsive and the training videos (at their site and on YT) and articles are very helpful.

Zoner Photo Studio is a terrific product even if you don't consider that its price is less than one third of that of its main competitor Photoshop/Lightroom. Zoner's ease of use is exemplified by the fact that even though I used to have access to Photoshop and Lightroom for free through my work, I happily paid for Zoner Photo Studio from my own pocket because it was so much easier to use. It is a comprehensive package, offering both simple and sophisticated photo editing methods whilst also having excellent cataloguing and metadata editing methods to make your photo collection readily searchable. Add to that its video editing capabilities and it is hard to find anything wrong with it.

I have been using Zoner Photo Studio for many years, as I found it easier to do what I wanted to do than Photoshop and Lightroom. Yes, it was annoying when the pop-up ads came on for the single license version. I hated that. I finally broke down and start the subscription (X) version. They seem to be very active with updates and photo taking and editing tips for their users.